. >> john boehner drew a line yesterday, no tax increases for small business. very interesting. thank you, rebecca. >>> more than 120 million americans voted for a president this year but now a much smaller group of people are deciding the government for china. bill whitaker is in china with that story for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. tightly held behind closed doors. unlike the u.s. the chinese people don't have a say. but they're making their voices heard just the same. everything about the 18th party congress is big. beijing's great hall of the people, more than 2,000 delegates, the communist elite carry the enormous weight and pride of history and chiennachina's boundless hope ss for the future. increasingly the hopes of 1.3 billion people clash with the one-party state. by some estimates there are 500 protests in china every day over corruption. last week in the central coastal city, huge protests over the expansion of a petro chemical plant. communist officials say it was good for the economy. 10,000 angry citizens say it was bad for their health. wh